Performance

First Look: Black Artist Burnout

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Now at the New Museum, *First Look: Black Artist Burnout* is a live program framed like an exhibition event, using performance and talk to examine the cost of cultural production. It turns to the pressures that follow Black artists in New York’s institutions and markets, where visibility can come with extraction and fatigue. The piece belongs to the city’s ongoing public record of how labor, race, and care intersect in the arts. Its clearest observation is structural: burnout here is treated less as a personal failing than as a predictable outcome.